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Minor earthquake: M3.19 quake has struck near Isabela in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 5, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1261S, -67.1726WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/02/20 / 2020-02-05 13:31:55 / February 5, 2020 @ 1:31 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: pr2020036032. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007j0z, pr2020036032. The temblor was detected at 09:31:55 / 9:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -67.1726° West, 19.1261° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hatillo, Camuy, Aguadilla (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seventy-eight, in the past 30 days eighty and in the last 365 days nine hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.19 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1726° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1261° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-05 13:31:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-05 14:44:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 157 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6615 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020036032 Id of event.
Event Code 2020036032 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007j0z,pr2020036032, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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